It has been a good first week for the International Political Theory website, featuring The IPT Beacon.  We received 4,000 visitors, many sending compliments and good wishes. The purpose of this blog is to add an interactive element.  As The IPT Beacon showcases outstanding already crafted articles, and the Resources pages feature working papers, conference presentations and pre-prints, IPT Viewpoints provides a forum for talking points, allowing the sharing of shorter, more topical, or more tentative - or, indeed, more polemical - thoughts about what is happening in the sphere of International Political Theory.